Kevin Pyne, of Lake Street, Dartmouth, writes:

Many thanks to the Dart­mouth Chronicle for making folk yet again aware of the regatta oars appeal.

I believe that only one is left unsponsored and that is most likely because I haven’t bump­ed into the person who wants it or I forgot to write their name down there and then.

Staging a regatta is horrendously expensive, so I penned out a poem which I am hoping the Chronicle might print.

 

Please put a pound in a tin

Or perhaps a tenner a day

So as your regatta committee can

Provide you with everything

From great rowing races

To fantastic firework pageants

Or thrilling air displays

 

Your kids can go crabbing

Or you can join in a fun run

Or merely draw pictures on

The pavements in what then

Are for just twenty-four hours

Living pavement art to become

 

You can have fun at the fair

Or board a warship

Or go to a ceilidh, a rock or

A ball, or just listen to music

As in the RAGs you there sit

 

And what of the sailing the polo

Or the oddity sights

Or the craft fare or the way

That the street market comes

Alive under flood lights  

 

You can swim in the races

Up at the town’s open pool

Or watch as the bungee rowers

Come flying back when

They can no longer pull

 

But it cost a small fortune to

Found it today

So surely it is worth the price

Of a couple of pints chucked

Into a bucket or tin to keep it that way

 

You see we have done what

We do for a century and soon

It will be two

But a regatta is but nothing save

A name that is unless it is

Supported by folk just like you.